It is really fascinating that with a help from artificial neural networks we can more understand how biological neural networks works. But I very doubt that we are able to create better neural networks than we already have in our skulls.
The evolution mechanism based on adapting the source code (DNA) took huge amount of time to emerge the concept of a biological brain and human body. Human body as an interface between the biological computation machine and the external world seems to be pretty well constructed as well. We are pretty well constructed for understanding what is going on. Nowadays (in the evolution scale of time, by nowadays I mean the last few thousands years as well), since we are the champions in the whole evolution race, we have a lot of resources that we can spent on understanding the world deeper and deeper.
Lets assume that the metric for general intelligence is defined by the ability to understand the world, seeking truth, make science and use the science. Having intelligence defined buy such metric, I doubt that we are able to create a better calculation machine with a better external world interface using neural networks approach on electronic devices.
- Do you think that somehow we are able to create more intelligent systems using the neural network approach?
- Maybe artificial neural networks could be a part of a more intelligent system? Is there a place for artificial neural networks in more complex system composed of many components?
- Do you know any concepts (real or sci-fi) for intelligent systems that are not imitating neural networks but use some others mechanisms?
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